Cancer is a…Well, it would be called every thing of the natural. Now, that’s how I study God first, was from His trees and plants and so forth, and I, God willing, Sunday I want to preach on “God In His Universe, God In His Son, God In His Word, God In His People,” and just show you how close God is here to us. He’s right around us all the time. He’s with us, even in us to the end of the world, and you can see Him operating through His nature, through the solar system, through everything, through…He’s just—He’s just God in the universe; that’s all. And now, let’s take, for instance, a—a natural and a spiritual here. Just come on my mind. I looked at the clock and seen it was five minutes of time to start the prayer line. I’ll try to get this if I can. Now, a cancer, that’s second greatest enemy the world has. Heart trouble’s first, then cancer and tubercular according to the insurance companies. Now, the—the cancer would be called in the natural a scavenger or a buzzard, something that eats dead things. A cancer usually comes from a bruise. A bruise, it strikes and it—the cells break, and in other words, they backslide and then in there sets up another life.

Healing (What Cancer Is), 1953-09-04, Chicago, IL, §12